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B07711	An alarme to all Christian princes and states of the religion. Written immediatly vpon the first newes of the death of the King of Sweden of famous memory, and euer will be to all posterity, and to eternity..	Gustaf II Adolf, King of Sweden, 1594-1632.	1632 (1632)	STC 12531.7; ESTC S92792	9,434	17

Lord to help the Lord against the mightie Whom the Lord also himself in the end wil curse explode and euen spue out of his mouth for they that are not with vs are against vs Mat. 12.30 so to be accounted of euen as enemies Let them declare themselues as our Sauiour wisheth hot or cold for Religion or against Religion for the common libertie of their conscience and their country Reu. 3.15 or against it I would thou wert cold or hot saieth our Sauiour but because thou art lukewarme and neither cold nor hot I will spue thee out of my mouth And it is to be wished and prayed for lykewise by the whole Church of Christ for that is all we can doe to wish and pray and that we all ought to doe for we are all members of that his mysticall bodie and euery one hath an interest in the weale or woe thereof and may freely spend his voice We are all Hypocrates twins we must either laugh together or weepe together wept we haue a long time I say it is to be wished and prayed for lykewise that his Maiestie of Great Britainne who professeth himselfe Defender of the faith catexochen aboue all other Kings and Princes and long may he liue to maintayne it would now declare himself by summoning or calling quam timeo how doe I feare to name it I onely wish and pray for it a Parliament O that the name of a Parliament should now be so hainous and odious as no man dare once name it scarce thinke of it that high court of Parliament so named so reverenced in times past that great counsell of state of the whole Land assembled as one man to prouide for the good of the state and of the whole Church of God and oppugne the enemies thereof which counsell had his Majestie and royall father been pleased to haue embraced and not the counsell of those wicked Rohoboami pravis consultoribus impulsi impulsi answeareth the echo againe to dissolue and break it of from time to time one parliament after an other aliquam quae nunc † Buchanan in his Epist ded before his trag Bapt Nulla in comparison of our former famous and flouwrishing estate c. nulla est rempublicam haberemus both Church and state had still flourished as in the dayes of Queene Elisabeth of famous memorie since vtterly decayed the glorie gone from Israel and nothing prospered that we haue vndertaken nor lyke to doe till it please God to put into his Majesties heart to call it againe to bewished I say and prayed for continually By calling a Parliament I say and cutting of the Popish and Spanish faction I may not name them neither I dare not I need not their characters are written in such great and capitall letters as a man may read them running as it is in the Prophet That great Gordian knot or threefold cord not easie to be broken nor possible to be loosed but cutt in peeces by him that beareth the sword and I hope not in vaine our Great Alexander The Popish Rom. 13.4 and Spanish faction I say with their adherents flatterers and time seruers their vassals and creatures of all others most base and vnworthy creatures of creatures vassals of vassals worthy also to be cutt off as King Dauid denounceth Psa 12.3 The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips c. nostrì fundi callamitas the callamitie of this our once so famous and flourishing a Kingdome and of the whole Church of God and the reformed Religion which they haue endeavoured to ruine if it were possible by diverting his Majestie and Royall father King Iames Vt eos quos tutari debeant desertos esse patiantur from giuing that countenance assistance therevnto which in all honour in respect of that royall tytle and in their owne royall disposition otherwise they both ought and would haue don bound therevnto by a more particular obligation to their owne flesh and blood now lying a bleeding both the one and the other Both the cause of Religion her chieffe champion slaine and that distressed and comfortles Ladie the Queene of Bohemia and her royall issue like to suffer as she hath don hitherto beyōd all patiēce which yet in the end will ouercome all Whereof I say the Popish and Spanish faction which we nourish euen in our owne bosomes are the cause and in the end lyke vipers will eate out euen their owne mothers bowels and vtterly ruine this our famous Kingdome Church and state if they be not cut off Now is the axe laied to the roote of the trees Mat. 3.10 Trees in the plurall number euen the high and mightie Cedars of Lebanon Kings Caisars for with God there is no respect of persons No respect of persons answereth the echo 2 King 20 1. Set thyne house in order for thou shalt dye and not liue saith the Lord by his Prophet to Hezekiah King of Iuda and in him to our Hezekiah a lyke gentlie warned of late and to all other Kings and Princes God graunt they may all repent mourne and lament as he did that so many yeeres may be added to their liues here in this world and after eternitie of glorie in the world to come Gently warned I say by a lyke visitation immediatly after the newes came of the death of the two Kings verie remarkable A lyke visitation I saie pestilenciall The small pocks pestilentiall and inclyning to the plague commonly a forerunner and mortall too to many cosen german to that great visitation so called the plague which was as some hold the deadly disease of Hezekiah sick vnto death as it is in that place A faire warning if so taken and not slighted as an ordinary and casuall visitation as I feare we doe but the circumstances make it not casuall but extraordinary and as I said before verie remarkable No occasion at all of infection precedent but immediatlie from the hand of God and the verie finger of God therein A gentle visitation indeed God giue vs grace to make vse of it before the destroying Angell come with his sword drawne and cut downe all before him Now is the axe laid to the roote of the trees Kings and Princes they now see they are mortall and shall die like men Euen be sick wounded slaine and die lyke other men The words vsed at the buriall of the dead in the booke of common prayer and that they are but earth dust and ashes earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust c. And therfore the Prophet cryeth vnto them earth earth earth heare the word of the Lord. Now therefore let vs leaue off our revelling and daunsing our maskes and playes vnseasonable especially on the Lords day when the Lord calleth to prayer and fasting weeping and mourning When I saie the Arke of God is in campe against the Philistims For feare we doe not act the last part of the